09-19-2010, 03:28 PM
I was reading the Advaita Bodha Deepika, at first it was slow with the whole student/teacher interaction. But as I went along with it I began to get the gist of it, normally when we say we are all one. We..we....we... there is no we and that is what others don't get.
There is only One.
When you pinch your arm, a set of nerve endings tell you that you just pinched yourself, even though you are not that very small piece of meat and nerve endings you just pinched they are a PART of you. When you slam your toe, You feel it... you feel the pain, the same can be said to someone that witnesses you get hurt... to an extent they feel some of your pain and may cringe at seeing you slam your toe. Another self may find it funny and laugh, while another may become angered by the lack of compassion of the one laughing. If we are all One then wouldn't that mean all are witnessing the same thing at once and reacting to the same action?
But how can this be? How can One be going through all the emotions at once?
Imagine if you will laying on the floor, small stones placed all over your body, different density stones, some cold, some soft, smooth, warm. Now your body is perceiving all the emotions at once... your nerve endings are all reacting and sending signals to the brain which decides which signals are of more importance to the self to perceive first. Cold and Heat will most likely attract more attention. But isn't it odd when the self begins to block the feelings of heat and cold and begins to search for the stones that are smooth, the ones that weigh less, the one that may be pointy or rough? You no longer perceive the hot stone, or the cold stone. Even though the stones are still there... and what if there was a stone that had vibratory properties? Would this stone not attract the most attention of all? Sending more signals to the self it would take more Will power to silence the stone and the vibrations sent to the mind/self.
So it is with this small demonstration that it can then be understood that many and all can be all at once from One and all reacting for the One self but until given attention to it will not be perceived.
So just as the nerve endings in your body are a network that connect instantly to the mind to pass on information that the self will perceive, is it at all any less possible that we are but a nerve ending to the God head which we are all a part of? Is a hair not a part of you? Is a toenail not also considered a part of you? A drop of blood? A cell? We could very well be a small memory process from eons ago in the brain of the God head. Just like we can dream for months and in our perception of reality had only dreamed for 15 minutes so could we be a long lost process that is One of Infinite processes, forever expanding.
There is only One.
When you pinch your arm, a set of nerve endings tell you that you just pinched yourself, even though you are not that very small piece of meat and nerve endings you just pinched they are a PART of you. When you slam your toe, You feel it... you feel the pain, the same can be said to someone that witnesses you get hurt... to an extent they feel some of your pain and may cringe at seeing you slam your toe. Another self may find it funny and laugh, while another may become angered by the lack of compassion of the one laughing. If we are all One then wouldn't that mean all are witnessing the same thing at once and reacting to the same action?
But how can this be? How can One be going through all the emotions at once?
Imagine if you will laying on the floor, small stones placed all over your body, different density stones, some cold, some soft, smooth, warm. Now your body is perceiving all the emotions at once... your nerve endings are all reacting and sending signals to the brain which decides which signals are of more importance to the self to perceive first. Cold and Heat will most likely attract more attention. But isn't it odd when the self begins to block the feelings of heat and cold and begins to search for the stones that are smooth, the ones that weigh less, the one that may be pointy or rough? You no longer perceive the hot stone, or the cold stone. Even though the stones are still there... and what if there was a stone that had vibratory properties? Would this stone not attract the most attention of all? Sending more signals to the self it would take more Will power to silence the stone and the vibrations sent to the mind/self.
So it is with this small demonstration that it can then be understood that many and all can be all at once from One and all reacting for the One self but until given attention to it will not be perceived.
So just as the nerve endings in your body are a network that connect instantly to the mind to pass on information that the self will perceive, is it at all any less possible that we are but a nerve ending to the God head which we are all a part of? Is a hair not a part of you? Is a toenail not also considered a part of you? A drop of blood? A cell? We could very well be a small memory process from eons ago in the brain of the God head. Just like we can dream for months and in our perception of reality had only dreamed for 15 minutes so could we be a long lost process that is One of Infinite processes, forever expanding.